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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Key defense spending vote in Senate on Saturday By JIM ABRAMS,Associated Press Writer - Sunday, December 20 Send IM Story Print WASHINGTON – Senators resumed work before the sun rose Saturday on a snow-covered Capitol to vote on legislation ensuring that U.S. troops are armed and the jobless don't lose their benefits _ and take one more step toward a Christmas week showdown over health care. The planned early morning vote on the $626 billion defense spending bill and other must-pass items resulted from an acrimonious struggle between Democrats determined to pass a health care bill this year and Republicans intent on using delaying tactics to stop them. Other votes were likely Saturday, including on a procedural test that would require Democrats to rally 60 votes behind the measure. Independent Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, an an Orthodox Jew who caucuses with Democrats, was back in Connecticut to celebrate the Sabbath with his family. That would require at least one Republican to support the measure. The GOP had failed at a filibuster as Republicans sought to slow progress on heath care. Democrats control the chamber with 60 votes. Democrats were confident, however, that they would get enough support from Republicans unwilling to cause a possible Pentagon cash crisis. The defense bill itself, which contains $128 billion for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and a 3.4 percent pay raise for the military, enjoyed wide support. But there was GOP discontent over the Democratic decision to use the bill as the engine to carry several short-term extensions of programs set to expire because of the failure of Congress to deal with them separately. Those include two-month extensions of unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless, health care subsidies for those out of work, highway and transit funding, three provisions of the terrorism-fighting Patriot Act and legislation shielding doctors from a steep cut in Medicare payments. "The Democratic leadership in both the House and Senate held this bill for the troops captive," said Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. "They knew that at the end of the year, they would stuff unrelated, must-pass legislation, which has nothing to do with the Department of Defense, or the men and women in the military ... so they could get it passed." Democrats scolded Republicans for forcing a 1 a.m. vote Friday to end a GOP-led filibuster and then requiring the full 30 hours, under Senate rules, before a final vote could be staged. Republicans have acknowledged they will use every means possible to stop the health care bill from coming to a final vote this year. Republicans are "using the military, the soldiers, as pawns in this political game," said Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska. "We know that we are upon the holiday season here, although here in this chamber, it certainly doesn't feel that way," commented Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska. "There is no sense of giving and sharing and the general cooperation and cheeriness that comes at least in my family with the holiday season." Before leaving for the holidays, the Senate must deal with one other politically sensitive issue, raising the debt ceiling, currently at $12.1 trillion, so the Treasury can continue to borrow. The defense bill is the last of 12 annual spending bills that Congress must pass for the budget year that began Oct. 1. The bill passed the House on Wednesday by 395-34. Senate inaction, while not likely, could force the Pentagon to shut down programs. Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton urged immediate passage because the latest stopgap measure to fund the Pentagon expired at midnight Friday. "Passage today will provide important support for our foreign policy and national security priorities and ensure continuity of funding for our troops in combat and for all of the Department of Defense," they said. The bill contains $104 billion for weapons procurement. It has $6.8 billion for 30 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters while providing $465 million to develop an alternative engine for that plane, a program that the Pentagon and President Barack Obama tried to kill. It does shut down programs for the F-22, a fighter the Pentagon considers ill-suited for today's insurgency warfare, and an expensive presidential helicopter. The president has yet to request funds for his recently announced troop increase in Afghanistan, and there is no money in the bill for that. The measure also trims personnel and maintenance accounts from previous versions of the measure to pump up weapons procurement for Afghanistan and Iraq by almost $2 billion. The defense measure would trim $900 million from the Pentagon's $7.5 billion budget to train Afghan security forces. It would use the money to buy about 1,400 additional mine-resistance vehicles suited for rugged conditions in Afghanistan. Lawmakers say the training program can't absorb that much money in the coming year, so they used it for other purposes. 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